The Point-of-Care Technology Research Network develops technologies with clinical applications using a network model that enhances complementary strengths and builds multidisciplinary partnerships.

LEARN MORE

Center news

POCTRN 2025 Innovation Award Opportunity

The deadline for this opportunity has passed.

Meet the researchers developing rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases

Yuka Manabe and her team at the Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases aim to improve global health with point-of-care tests that give rapid results

Global collaboration funds new projects to advance cancer detection technologies

CITEC announces first round of subawardees

NIH announces winners of prize competition to improve postpartum maternal health and health equity through innovative diagnostics

Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) Advancing Cures and Therapies and ending ENDOmetriosis diagnostic delays (ACT ENDO) Challenge

FDA Permits Marketing of First Point-of-Care Hepatitis C RNA Test

Test Enables Single-Visit Testing and Treatment for Hepatitis C

Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies

Focus: To develop and translate microsystems-engineered technologies including microchip-enabled devices that include microelectromechanical systems (MEMs)-based sensors, microfluidics, and smartphone-based systems.

Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases

Focus: To develop and test the accuracy, acceptability, and optimal implementation of point-of-care tests for sexually transmitted diseases in diverse care delivery contexts both in the United States and in resource-limited settings.

Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern

Focus: to support the development and facilitate commercialization of a pipeline of point-of-care technologies designed to meet the clinical needs of people at high-risk or living with HIV/AIDS or impacted by emerging infectious diseases in low-resource settings.

Center for Advancing Point of Care in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases

Focus: To support development and testing of promising “late-stage” point of care technologies that can be rapidly deployed to enhance the diagnosis, monitoring, management and/or treatment of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders.

Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer in Global Health at Cornell University

Focus: To support development, deployment, clinical validation, and commercialization of point-of-care technologies for nutrition, infection and cancer for global health in locations where access to better diagnostics can have the largest worldwide impact. We focus on technologies that address the primary needs of the most vulnerable in the US and internationally.

The Center for Innovation and Translation of Point of Care Technologies for Expanded Cancer Care

Focus: To accelerate the development and adoption of new technologies that can be used to improve the early detection of cancer in low-resource settings in the United States and globally.

Our partners

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Fogarty International Center

Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Office of AIDS Research

Office of Disease Prevention